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Date:      Wed, 27 Oct 1999 17:25:34 -0700
From:      "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com>
To:        Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Jean-Pierre H. Dumas" <jphdumas@yahoo.fr>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Security tests
Message-ID:  <19991027172534.A17924@best.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910261303540.51807-100000@green.myip.org>; from Brian Fundakowski Feldman on Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 01:06:21PM -0400
References:  <19991026143635.25359.rocketmail@web1003.mail.yahoo.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910261303540.51807-100000@green.myip.org>

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On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 01:06:21PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Jean-Pierre H. Dumas wrote:
> 
> > Is there any other scanners or whatever that I can get
> > and run, either from within the server, or from
> > outside (I have a FreeBSD 3.2, Linux and Windows 95
> > machine on the Ethernet)
> 
> The only way to really know if your system is "secure" is to thoroughly
> audit and test it after having attempted to secure it.  One tool you
> may be interested in assisting you for checking local and remote security
> is SATAN; be careful though, since it doesn't know how to do _everything_.

In fact, it knows how to do nothing:

http://www.hackernews.com/orig/whyvuln.html

-- yan


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